Bottle-cleaning device.



PATENTED 00w. 18, 1904.

W. W. SPALDING. BOTTLE CLEANING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1904.'

N0 MODEL.

. UNITE j STATES Patented October 18, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM w. SPALDING, on NEW YORK, N. 'Y.

BOTTLE-CLEANING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Ijatent No. 772,752, dated October 18, 1904.

Application filed July 21, I904.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WIL iAM W. SPALDING,

a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bottle-Cleaning Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is'to provide a new andimproved bottle-cleaning device more especially designed for cleaning nursing-bottles and the like by the use of shot and arranged to allow of conveniently placing the shot in the bottle, confining it therein while shaking the bottle, and allowing quick removaland storing of the shot after the bottle is cleaned.

The invention conslsts of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as

confined in the device.

will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings,

forming a part of this specification, in which I suitable material and preferably of spherical shape, is provided with a neck A and a fiaring mouth A engaged by one end of a short flexible tube B, adapted to be drawn over the neck G of the bottle 0 to be cleaned to hold the device temporarily in position on the bot-v tle. The neck A forms an interior valveseat for a valve D, having its stem D extending through an opening in the wall of the receptacleA, andon the outer end of the said valve-stem D is arranged a knob or handle D adapted to be taken hold of by the operator for conveniently opening or closing the valve D, as hereinafter more fully described. A spring E, coiled on the valve-stemD within the receptacle A, serves to normally hold the valve D on its seat A.

Serial 217,488. (No a es.)

The shot F for cleaning the bottle is normally confined in the receptacle A, as plainly illustrated in Fig. 1, and when it is desired to use the device on a bottle then the tube B is connected with the neck C of the bottle and the operator pulls on the knob D to open the valve D to allow the shot F to fall through the valve-seat A and mouth A into the bottle O, and after the shot is all in the bottle then the operator releases the knob D to allow the valve D to close by the action of the spring E. The bottle is now shaken, so that the shot in the bottle cleans the same with the'aid of a small quantity of water in the bottle.

After the-bottle has been cleaned it is turned upside down, so that the shot passes through the neck 0 into the open mouth A and the operator now pulls the knob D to again open the valve D, so that the shot runs through the open seat in the neck A back into the receptacle A,and after the shot has passed into the receptacle the operator releases the knob D to again allow the valve D to move to its seat. receptacle A and the tube B is disconnected from the neck C of the bottle. The device is now ready to be again used on another bottle.

Any liquid that may flow with the shot into the vessel A can readily drain out of the same through the valve D, as the latter need not fitvery accurately on its-seat at the neck A in order to confine the shot F, as previously explained.

The device is very simple and durable in construction and can be cheaply manufactured and readily applied to a nursing-bottle or like device to be cleaned Having thus described my, invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A cleaning device comprising a recepta cle for containing shot and provided at its outlet with a valve-seat, a manually-controlled valve in'the said receptacle, and a flexible tube at the outlet, for connecting the device with the neck of the bottle to be cleaned.

2. A cleaning device comprising a receptacle for containing shot and provided with a flaring mouth and aneck forming an interior valve-seat, a manually-controlled spring- The shot is now confined within the pressed Valve Within the said receptacle,adapt ed to be seated on the said seat, and a flexible tube held on the said outlet and projecting beyond the same, to allow of connecting the tube With the neck of the bottle to be cleaned.

, 3. A cleaning device comprising a receptacle for containing shot and having a neck and a flaring mouth, the neck forming an interior valve-seat, a valve adapted to be seated on the said seat and having its valve-stem extending through an opening in the Wall of the receptacle, a spring Within the receptacle and to this specification in the presence of two sub- 20 scribing witnesses.

\VILLIAM \V. SPALDING. \Vitnesses:

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